Posted by Prophet of Retrogames on 6, 2000 at 6:22 PM:
In Reply to: Advance MAME, Vsync MAME, SiS MAME, OptiMAME, KbMAME, Plain Vanilla MAME (read on) posted by EmuMannen on 6, 2000 at 3:29 AM:
Yes, I agree - it would be wonderful if all these special features were adopted into the official release versions. It's not impossible either, but would involve a decent amount of extra work. Here are some reasons why Nicola probably won't add them, but I'm only guessing:
1) Time factor - he's already falling behind just adding all the new drivers and code refinements!
2) Work factor - aside from extra time, it's extra work.
3) The newbie factor - normal MAME already generates tons of newbie confusion and emails. Imagine if all that advanced stuff was added!
4) Maybe Nicola and other devs just don't feel those extra features are necessary. Of course, Andrea Mazzoleni is on MAMEdev and he makes Advance MAME so... :)
Anyway, Andrea seems to love making Advance MAME get better and better, so feel free to email him a suggestion. I think the optimame code in particular would be wonderful to add.
-P-
www.retrogames.com
: I am a free time freeware programmer to so I know to appreciate other peoples free development work. MAME is one of the most impressive freeware projects on the net and I have such a good time playing with it. I would therefor like to thank all MAME contributors from the bottom of my hart and I would also like to point out that I know that I am not entitled to demand any thing from the developers.
: I just find one thing annoying and that is that all brilliant add-ons like the support for optical devices in OptiMAME, video enhancements in Advance MAME and NeoGeo optimisation in KbMAME (just to mention a few) seldom or never gets incorporated in the standard version of MAME? How come?
: I never find a single version of MAME that has all the options I need and I am always afraid that one of these special versions is going to be discontinued! This is becoming quite annoying… So I would like to know if any one knows if the authors try to get their extensions added to regular MAME or if the MAME Dev. team refuse such offers or if there is another reason why the situation is as it is?
: / EmuMannen – Quite frustrated
: : Now up to v0.37 Beta 4. And it now has all the VsyncMAME drivers and more! =)
: : You can get the files at Retrogames or the Advance MAME homepage right now!
: : More good stuff coming in future versions too!
: : -P-
: : www.retrogames.com